zeofig

Don't forget f*xtralife

Yeah sure whatever

None of them are true. They might be almost true in little bubbles of the West. Will those bubbles expand and encompass the world? Personally I doubt it.

Am I supposed to not like that?

Buy signal

It's $(a lot) because only a tiny fraction of the population can live without goods delivered and produced by diesel fuel.

I don't consider self-reported nonsense to be empirical confirmation. There can be correlations between different self-reports, that doesn't mean that our idea of why those correlations exist is correct.

It remains godawful slop in every instance I've seen, no matter how expensive it would be to produce without AI.

Some data centers, sure. 23% of the country's energy worth? I don't think so. Training LLMs is not critical digital infrastructure.

I agree with your analysis, but doesn't that make this blogpost by google a bit overoptimistic, or even disingenuous?

Marketing

proompt didn't work

I do know their names. However I'm not in the field and there are many cases in recent years of high-profile scientists putting their weight behind highly dubious claims. Thanks for the advice, by the way.

Note that I'm not disputing the validity of the counterexample itself.